Dalmas Otieno

All parliamentary appearances

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• 30 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: The fact that so many boards have been mismanaged before, is not an excuse. The fact that corruption has been experienced in so many other boards is not an excuse. Our future is in agri-business, agro-industries and urgent steps like hon. Chris Wamalwa has taken on this particular Motion should be supported all the time. view
• 30 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 3 Dec 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I was going to request the hon. Member if we put a higher figure, what are we trying to aim at? A precedent will be set and injuries will be classified by the compensation committees. Similarly, if we say death, if you put a very high maximum, the temptation is to go for it from day one. If we put a lower maximum as the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee was proposing, we only remain to review the standards nationally and through the Statue Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) these figures will be increasing periodically as we go. ... view
• 3 Dec 2013 in National Assembly: The temptation of a high maximum of Kshs5 million from the current one of Kshs1million, the risk of depleting the funds will be too much. I am, therefore, pleading that in terms of structuring compensation--- These compensations will be compared with others, say, in the motor vehicle industry where we have gone the direction of fixed amounts. We should not make one type of injury leading to death or permanent disability a bit too high in the scales and you automatically then raise even what the courts will be considering. They will say, Parliament already fixed this figure here and ... view
• 20 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as you realise, this is a matter we have not streamlined. The Statements are being requested from the Chairpersons, and not from the Committees themselves.These statements are requested of the Chair of the Departmental Committee. The request is then sent to the Executive. The Executive writes a statement which is sent back to the Chair. At that stage, the Chair comes to the House and reads what the Executive has said. The Chair has not even interrogated the Executive over the issue. The Committee has not even seen the statement, let alone even the response from ... view
• 20 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, thank you for giving me the opportunity to comment on this amendment. I am a member of this Committee and the mood in the House now is exactly the mood that was in the Committee yesterday. Mr. Mututho is not in court because of any crime. It is a crime of the category described as economic crime. It is the crime that made Mwiraria and other members of the Cabinet to step aside just for investigations the moment they were charged. What is about to happen in the House is that we are undertaking to move two amendments. ... view
• 20 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: One is that if the Judiciary is going to take so many years to determine a case, you will acquit the person in the House. Second, we are undertaking that if you recommend we appoint Mututho, we are automatically amending the Economic Crimes Act. Now that the Leader of the Majority Party is listening to me and he is the one who raised this, I expect him to publish two Bills. One will provide that if any case takes a period, we shall agree on here in the House, without being decided, all the accused shall be innocent. Two, under ... view
• 20 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: I only want to caution that impunity is the crime generally committed by those of us who are effective and efficient performers, and who are in power and cannot be challenged by the ordinary wananchi. So, we are going towards a reversal of the judicial reform process that was going to strengthen the rule of law in this Republic. view
• 20 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, we agonised. I saw Kamama, the Chair of the Committee, shedding tears when the word “reject” was going to be written. view
• 19 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, first, there was the ruling that Members would not bring amendments if they had not done so before. I am supporting hon. Sakaja; so, could he wait? The amendment is now before the House. It was privileged by the Chair’s prior ruling. Any withdrawal should only be by leave of the House. If he is allowed to do so, he is ambushing us. Now that he has a solution that it is a further amendment--- Hon. Sakaja has moved that further amendment; I support that further amendment because the argument that the youth council and ... view